Claiming America : constructing Chinese American identities during the exclusion era /

A collection of essays that recovers the lives and experiences of individuals who staked their claim to Chinese American identity.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wong, Kevin Scott, Chan, Sucheng
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1882-1943.
Chinese Americans > History.
Chinese > United States > Social conditions.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Chinese Americans.
Chinese > Social conditions.
Soziale Situation
Aufsatzsammlung
United States.
USA.
Chinesen.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cultural defenders and brokers : Chinese responses to the anti-Chinese movement / K. Scott Wong
  • The origins of the Chinese Americanization movement : Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League / Qingsong Zhang
  • "Exercise your sacred rights" : the experience of New York's Chinese laundrymen in practicing democracy / Renqiu Yu
  • Fighting for their American rights : a history of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance / Sue Fawn Chung
  • Race, ethnic culture, and gender in the construction of identities among second-generation Chinese Americans, 1880s to 1930s / Sucheng Chan
  • "Go west ... to China" : Chinese American identity in the 1930s / Gloria H. Chun
  • The "Oriental problem" in America, 1920-1960 : linking the identities of Chinese American and Japanese American intellectuals / Henry Yu.

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